Google Stackdriver

Monitoring and management for services, containers,
applications, and infrastructure.

Full observability for your code and applications

Stackdriver aggregates metrics, logs, and events from infrastructure, giving developers
and operators a rich set of observable signals that speed root-cause analysis and
reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). Stackdriver doesn’t require extensive
integration or multiple “panes of glass,” and it won’t lock developers into using a
particular cloud provider.

Works with multiple clouds and on-premises infrastructure

Stackdriver is built from the ground up for cloud-powered applications. Whether you’re
running on Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, on-premises infrastructure, or
with hybrid clouds, Stackdriver combines metrics, logs, and metadata from all of your
cloud accounts and projects into a single comprehensive view of your environment, so
you can quickly understand service behavior and take action.

Full-stack insights

Stackdriver gives you access to logs, metrics, traces, and other signals from your
infrastructure platform(s), virtual machines, containers, middleware, and application
tier, so that you can track issues all the way from your end user to your backend
services and infrastructure. Native support for distributed systems, auto-scaling,
ephemeral resources, and application performance management means
that your monitoring works seamlessly with your modern architecture.

Native Google integration and more

Google Stackdriver features

Debugger

Stackdriver Debugger
connects your application’s production data to your source code by inspecting the state
of your application at any code location in production without stopping or slowing down
your requests.

Stackdriver Monitoring
provides endpoint checks to web applications and other internet-accessible services
running on your cloud environment. You can configure uptime checks associated with URLs,
groups, or resources, such as instances and load balancers.

Thanks to Stackdriver smart defaults, you can get up and running with core visibility
into your cloud platform in under two minutes. As you deploy our open source agents,
additional metrics and logs are automatically incorporated into the service.

Alerts

Allows you to create alerting policies to notify you when metrics, health check results,
and uptime check results meet specified criteria. Integrated with a wide variety of
notification channels, including Slack and PagerDuty.

Stackdriver Logging
provides you with the ability to filter, search, and view logs from your cloud and open
source application services. Allows you to define metrics based on log contents that
are incorporated into dashboards and alerts. Enables you to export logs to BigQuery,
Google Cloud Storage, and Pub/Sub.

Dashboards

Provides you with default dashboards for cloud and open source application services.
Allows you to define custom dashboards with powerful visualization tools to suit your
needs.

“
[Stackdriver] is a quick and easy utility to monitor your app’s performance. Within
minutes we had dashboards for compute instances and VPN statistics. An easy-to-use
policy based alert management system helps us notify on call engineers of issues
quickly.
”